resurrection of the dead.”144 This explanation, however, will hardly suffice: nowhere in Rom 8 nor elsewhere in the epistle does Paul make a distinction between believers alive at the parousia and those who have died. The reason for the difference is that in Romans Paul is operating with a stronger sense of continuity between this creation and the transformed creation and views bodily resurrection accordingly. 6.4.5. The soteriological paradigm of Romans The redemptive scheme of 1 Corinthians is